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Current Trainees

Our Trainees include graduate students (M.A. and Ph.D. levels) as well as post-doctoral fellows who are affiliated with one or more areas of aging-related research, including:

  • Care practices, care work, and care delivery
  • Aging policy and healthy aging promotion
  • Cognitive neuroscience of aging
  • Physiology and bio-mechanics of aging

Current YU-CARE Member Trainees

Adina Levi
Adina Levi, MA

Early on in my undergraduate degree, I was introduced to the fascinating interface between biology and psychology, and the notion that human behaviour can be understood through neural correlates. I began contributing to a cognitive neurointervention aiming to offset chronic hippocampal degeneration in traumatic brain injury patients. I completed my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. Gary Turner at York University and Dr. Asaf Gilboa at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, and examined the relationship between two hippocampal-dependent abilities: spatial navigation and pattern completion and separation. Dr. Gary Turner's Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurointervention lab, where I am currently a graduate student in the Clinical Neuropsychology program, studies neurorehabilitation interventions to enhance cognitive functioning in normal aging and neurological populations. My MA thesis aims to study the impact prior knowledge on schemas using a novel rest and reactivation paradigm on patients with damage to the medial temporal lobe and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Outside of the lab, I love to travel, hike and paint.

Area of research: Cognitive neuroscience of aging.